The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century

by Gerald J. Baldasty

Book Overview

The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century traces the major transformation of newspapers from a politically based press to a commercially based press in the nineteenth century. Gerald J. Baldasty argues that broad changes in American society, the national economy, and the newspaper industry brought about this dramatic shift.
Increasingly in the nineteenth century, news became a commodity valued more for its profitablility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299134040
• ISBN13: 9780299134044
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"